Miles Davis Quintet: Live in Europe 1967: The Bootleg Series Vol. 1

Herbie Hancock | Miles Davis | Ron Carter | Tony Williams | Wayne Shorter

This four disc set contains five full length concerts of Miles Davis’ legendary “second quintet,” recorded during their European tour...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: Dec/Jan/2011/2012

Album Interview: Bugge Wesseltoft & Henning Kraggerud: Last Spring

Bugge Wesseltoft | Henning Kraggerud

Although most of Wesseltoft's work has been released by his own Jazzland label, including his hugely influential New Conception of...

Reviewed by Stuart Nicholson in issue: September/2012

Album Interview: Corea, Clarke & White: Forever

Bill Connors | Chaka Khan | Chick Corea | Jean-Luc Ponty | Lenny White | Stanley Clarke

The real treat for Return To Forever fans comes in the first half of the first CD with the rhythmic...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: June/2011

Modern Jazz Quartet: Plays for Lovers

The original early 1950s Prestige album is supplemented here by later tracks done for Atlantic, keeping the mood of romance...

Reviewed by Alyn Shipton in issue: August/2013

Andy Brown: Soloist

This Chicagoan guitarist goes solo with influences in the same ball park as Joao Gilberto and Joe Pass although in...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: May/2015

Josh Lawrence & Color Theory: Contrast

This young trumpeter's sextet's polished mix of Afro-Cuban jazz, bebop and a little hip hop is infused with an easy-going...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: June/2018

Thinking Plague: Hoping Against Hope

A band that's now 35 years old and still going strong, Thinking Plague might be an acquired taste, but they...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: September/2017

Anne Mette Iverson: Poetry of Earth

A Danish bassist sets poetry (in both Danish and English) from Ibsen to Keats to an interesting set of chamber...

Reviewed by Selwyn Harris in issue: August/2012

Fred Thelonious Baker: Life Suite

Fred Thelonious Baker

Fresh, melodic, straight-ahead: what's not to like about Baker's solo acoustic debut? Baker has long been among the nation's respected...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: October/2014

Album Interview: Django Bates’ Belovèd: The Study of Touch

Django Bates | Peter Bruun | Petter Eldh

In a world of piano trios, Belovèd are a world apart. A decade on from their first coalescence, this is...

Reviewed by Andy Robson in issue: Dec/Jan/2017/2018